science and culture

The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference

June 14-15, 2025

Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London

and online

Proposal Deadline: May 12, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Susan Rowland

 Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/the-creative-psyche/

Call for Papers:

This panel examines the works and influence of American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. We are interested in proposals about the novels and short stories written by PKD, the many film and television adaptations of those works, the influence of his works and ideas on media of various kinds, and, more generally, the influence of Philiip K. Dick on other science fiction authors. This panel welcomes proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

Submit abstract here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19694

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:

Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.

Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for our Winter issue. We are particularly interested in research on:

• Cultural responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis (fine arts, film, popular visual culture, activism)

• Feminist New Wave Cinema

• Trans Cinema

• Textiles, fiber arts, weaving screens  

• The Culture and Politics of Gaming

• Health Humanities

• Graphic Medicine

• Social Media  

We also welcome exhibition reviews and book reviews (1k-5k words). 

In all medical practices, two goals stand out: to cure and to care. In a vernacular context, care is discursive, relational, and mutual, while cure is linear, utilitarian, and quantifiable. In his book Care and Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga iterates on two sides of the care-cure conundrum: “[...] when an intervention mitigates harm then it provides some care, and when an intervention mitigates abnormal biological functioning
then it goes some way toward cure.”

International Pynchon Week 2026

June 15-19, 2026

TU Dortmund University, Germany

 “Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s Rainbow)

Online 25-26 September 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This special response responds directly to PAMLA's 2025 conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” seeking presentations on fictions that present and respond to physical phenomena that defy understanding, specifically phenomena represented in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.     

In February 2024, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University hosted the Privileged Logics 2024 Conference that examined how privilege shapes STEM research, research ethics, and the very definitions of research quality and research access. The National Science Foundation-funded conference sparked enriching exchanges and fresh perspectives — conversations we want to continue. 

Caleidoscopio invites you to submit papers for its series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: under the topic “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

Archives, while carrying out the operation of the gaze, function like a mirror: they point to a spectral exteriority. The archive is of the order of the phantasmagorical and, by definition, they are phantasmatic. This approach points out to what Harun Farocki’s stressed as the definition of a phantom or operational image, images that are built from a non-human perspective, although they call-in human agency.

Why should humans be witnessing and/or scrutinizing images productions? Is that still a need? Are there any ethical or aesthetical motives or meanings to it?

In a 2022 article, one of a number of related works, and drawing on the work of Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014)– the late art theorist Marina Vishmidt critiqued the manner in which an analysis of ‘bodies’ seemed to be overly focused on the register of vulnerability, or the post-structuralist, discursive, or psychoanalytic dimensions, thus relegating bodies excessively to the realm of the abstract, to the exclusion of the concrete. Anatomy, with regards to both its aesthetic and scientific purposes, also has abstract and concrete dimensions – as innovative recent works analyzing anatomy within its broader social and historical contexts demonstrate.

MSA Boston 2025: Modernist Aerial Infrastructure

The Tolkien Society is excited to partner with the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. The seminar will be co-run by Will Sherwood (The Tolkien Society’s Education Secretary), Clare Moore (University of Glasgow), and Journee Cotton (New Mexico Military Institute).

We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.

Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private?